1697 (MDCXCVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1697th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 697th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1690s decade. As of the start of 1697, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
September 11: The Prince of Savoy defeats the Ottoman Empire's final attack on Hungary at the Battle of Zenta.
1697 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1697
MDCXCVII
Ab urbe condita2450
Armenian calendar1146
ԹՎ ՌՃԽԶ
Assyrian calendar6447
Balinese saka calendar1618–1619
Bengali calendar1104
Berber calendar2647
English Regnal yearWill. 3 – 10 Will. 3
Buddhist calendar2241
Burmese calendar1059
Byzantine calendar7205–7206
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4394 or 4187
    — to —
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4395 or 4188
Coptic calendar1413–1414
Discordian calendar2863
Ethiopian calendar1689–1690
Hebrew calendar5457–5458
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1753–1754
 - Shaka Samvat1618–1619
 - Kali Yuga4797–4798
Holocene calendar11697
Igbo calendar697–698
Iranian calendar1075–1076
Islamic calendar1108–1109
Japanese calendarGenroku 10
(元禄10年)
Javanese calendar1620–1621
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar4030
Minguo calendar215 before ROC
民前215年
Nanakshahi calendar229
Thai solar calendar2239–2240
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
1823 or 1442 or 670
    — to —
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
1824 or 1443 or 671

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Ongoing

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Births

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William Smellie (obstetrician) born 5 February
 
Yunli born 24 March
 
Jean-Marie Leclair born 10 May
 
Countess Palatine Ernestine of Sulzbach born 15 May
 
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor born 6 August
 
Princess Benedetta d'Este born 18 August
 
Alexander Monro (primus) born 19 September
 
William Smith (judge, born 1697) born 8 October
 
Georg Desmarées born 29 October
 
Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco born 10 November
 
Johann Baring born 15 November
 
Maria Karolina Sobieska born 25 November

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Deaths

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Francesco Redi died 1 March
 
William Child died 23 March
 
Niels Juel died 8 April
 
Louise Boyer died 22 May
 
John Aubrey died 7 June
 
John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale died 11 August
 
Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland died 17 December
 
Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental died 20 December

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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References

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  2. ^ "Karl XI". Nordisk familjebok (in Swedish). Vol. 13 (2nd ed.). 1910. p. 962.
  3. ^ Gaston Cahen, History of the Relations of Russia and China Under Peter the Great, 1689-1730, translated by W. Sheldon Ridge (The National Review, 1914) pp. 61-62; another source, The Tea Road: China and Russia Meet Across the Steppe by Martha Avery (China Intercontinental Press, 2003) p. 107, gives the date as May 3.
  4. ^ "La Percée de l'Europe sur les océans vers 1690-vers 1790", in Revue d'histoire maritime (October 1997)
  5. ^ Malmborg, Boo von; Palmstierna, Carl-Fredrik (1971). Slott och herresäten i Sverige, ett konst- och kulturhistoriskt samlingsverk [Castles and manors in Sweden] (in Swedish). Vol. 1, Kungliga slottet i Stockholm. Malmö: Allhem. p. 39.
  6. ^ "Kjærvikmordet" (in Norwegian). University of Tromsø. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  7. ^ Warren Smith, Tibetan Nation: A History Of Tibetan Nationalism And Sino-Tibetan Relations (Taylor & Francis, 2019)
  8. ^ "The History Of Chocolate: A Chocolate Timeline". The Nibble. Retrieved December 29, 2020.